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We combine our experience in the education sector with our deep knowledge of private industry best practices to help institutions of higher learning overcome their most complex and pressing challenges.

Higher Education

Satori is committed to helping higher education institutions manage the significant challenges they are facing. Regardless of the challenge - enrollment optimization, greater demand for access, increased competition for students, significant downward pressure on funding, identification of new revenue sources, increased security/compliance requirements – we can address issues that span an entire university system or those impacting an individual department or campus.

Our comprehensive services framework includes capabilities that are of particular interest to the Higher Education market, such as Program and Project Management, Change Management, Business Process Engineering, Business Continuity Planning, and Regulatory and Risk Compliance. Our consultants are seasoned professionals who have deep experience solving diverse problems in the education, government, not-for-profit, and commercial sectors. We apply our expertise, methodologies, and best practices to address each client’s specific needs and objectives. In addition to our broad consulting services, we offer our higher education clients specialized services to address their unique challenges:

Procure-to-Pay for Higher Education

In addition to our broad services framework, we have developed a Procure-to-Pay solution specifically for higher education institutions. Procure-to-Pay encompasses the requisitioning, receiving, and invoicing processes. We developed this offering to address the financial challenges facing higher education institutions and the large opportunities for improvement that exist within procurement functions. Our diagnostic tool identifies gaps in the Procure-to-Pay processes and estimates the potential financial benefits of improved performance. After identifying opportunities, we help clients prioritize, plan, and execute initiatives to realize the value of these improvements. To develop an understanding of how your organization may benefit, visit our online, interactive Procure-to-Pay assessment tool. 
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Transformation/Distance Learning

We help institutions of higher education and their constituents make the transition from traditional classroom-based teaching to teaching online. We help clients identify the gap between their current and desired operating model and perform the steps required to achieve transformation. The services we offer vary from providing faculty support on how to effectively teach online, to stakeholder engagement to providing momentum for the transition, to improving processes that help administrators manage online enrollment, to developing financial models to determine anticipated profitability from distance learning.

Workforce Optimization

As funding becomes scarce, institutions of higher education must adapt to succeed in a new environment. We help clients examine the impacts and identify strategic objectives based on the institution’s mission and overarching goals. Keeping the strategic objectives in mind, we work to identify, engage, and motivate the talent required to excel. Our approach involves engaging leaders to develop a workforce profile that reflects the ideal future state, analyzing the impact of staffing-related decisions, and designing a transition plan to guide the transformation effort. 
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Business Continuity Planning / Pandemic Preparedness

Higher education institutions are vulnerable to a diversity of threats and disruptions. Though not all disasters can be prevented, Satori’s Business Continuity Management (BCM) services enable rapid identification of institutional risks and priorities, development of practical and flexible response plans, mitigation of crisis impacts, and timely recovery from disruptive events.

A threat of particular concern is the swine flu outbreak, which the WHO and CDC expect to increase as schools reconvene and the fall /winter influenza season approaches. Institutions face a significant undertaking in anticipating and decreasing the spread of illness among students, faculty and staff so as not to compromise the academic year. Satori’s Pandemic Planning Framework facilitates implementation of preventative and mitigating measures, such as:

• Implementation of CDC influenza guidance for institutions of higher education
• Development of pandemic response plans, adaptable to varying levels of influenza severity
• Student, faculty and staff communications, reporting and training
• Planning and support for implementation of online learning programs
• Identification of criteria and guidelines for managing potential suspension of classes, athletics and campus events

Contact Information

For more information, please contact us at highered@satoriconsulting.com